Two maternally-themed tanka poems, written by Shuji Terayama in the early 1960s：
fixed
in the cold sight of my gun
the sparrow on the roof
might be my mother
さむきわが射程のなかにさだまりし
屋根の雀は母かもしれぬ
carpenter town
temple town rice town
Buddha town
tell me, swallow
is there a town for buying old mothers
大工町寺町米町仏町
老母買ふ町あらずやつばめよ
